Why is my Microsoft Word document not working correctly with Pages

I have created a new CV (Resume) in Microsoft Word on my work computer, it is using the latest version of Office. When I attempted to open the document in Pages on my home Mac, the formatting was slightly incorrect, but the main issue is it is missing two pages! The exact same document when opened in Word has three pages but in Pages, it only has one! I have had nothing but problems with Pages since I bought it! Can someone please help me get Pages to work correctly with my documents that are created in Word! Than you.

My guess to why you've lost two pages when converting a Word document to Pages is that you have used a table for your information and the table is spanning over several pages in Word. Pages doesn't work like that and can't break tables over several pages when the cell height is taller than the text layer n a page.

Word and Pages doesn't convert perfectly and never will. If you expect Pages to behave and work like Word you will get problems.

Being text based, with good typographical layout, those Pages templates should translate accurately back and forth from Pages to Word.

Frankly CVs don't require anything fancy. You could do an excellent, well laid out and very attractive CV in TextEdit which is no slouch in the word processing department.

Peter

PS Start off by saving your Word CV to .rtf or .txt which will strip off most of the bad formatting. Then reopen it in Pages or drag in the snippets of text into a Pages CV template's placeholders to automatically format the text nicely.

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